Last night between making Ethan Canin nervous and telling him not to make a shitty Web site, we talked a bit about blogging and I Will Dare. “How long have you been writing it?” he…
Date Archives July 2008
Two things I can tell you about the Ethan Canin reading
1. Ethan Canin told me I was making him nervous. I wasn’t even doing anything creepy. All I did was introduce myself and told him that the e-mail he sent me about my post on…
Ethan Canin reading tonight at Magers & Quinn
If y’all aren’t busy, you should go listen to Ethan Canin read at Magers & Quinn tonight. It’s not often that we get to be in the presence of greatness.
The funkiest boys you’ve ever seen
My favorite part is when Liam turns to tell me that Prince plays the guitar.
Stream of conscious reports from the front
I have all five kids here today. It’s only 8:30 and I’m already ready for a nap. They are destroying my house and in the process making houses for their pet rocks. Nolan will only…
The story of a rocknapping
Jaycie made pet rocks for everyone. Mine is Spike, the orange rock on the right with the blue leash. She came with a nifty birth certificate listing her likes and dislikes. I loved her immediately…
Things I am really, really done with, a new list to replace the last list
Dysfunctional family drama. Never have I been so thankful that my sisters and I diffuse our tense squabbles with passive-aggressive sarcasm. I like that much better than whispered snark. Potato salad. I love potato salad…
Things I am done with, a list
Catching up on more episodes of Dawson’s Creek than I am comfortable admitting to you. Finding the perfect calendar for the new Web site. Picnic-style family get-togethers located north of 394. Three weeks of extended…
Breaking on through to the other side*
Last night I had a creative breakthrough on a Web site I’ve been working on and pondering for, oh, I don’t know eleventy billion months. This is the kind of project that I’ve told only…
One of my many problems with the time-space continuum
Here’s the thing with Thursdays, I often think they are Fridays. This is why my garbage bin is currently heaped to overflowing and the recycle bin runneth over. This is why I am sitting in…